D/B Recommended: Drawing in the age of electronic expression – Opening @ LEAP Berlin | Saturday, 28.01.2012
How has the role of the artist been transformed by the impact of digital technology? Can the producer leave the surface and program equipment, with data controlled by insects and machines, which in themselves turn into the actual producers or synthesize sounds into images?
D/B Recommended: Lionel Williams – Exhibition & Concerts @ Mindpirates Berlin | Sunday, 22.01. – Saturday, 28.01.2012
Berlin, January. Cold … wet … dark … isolation. One either grins and bears the temporary depression or packs up a melancholic soul and escapes. The long-looming year 2012 has already become our current calendar. The countdown is on.
D/B Recommended: CTM.12 Festival @ Different Venues in Berlin | from Monday, 30.01.2012 to Sunday, 05.01.2012
With an extensive program of concerts, discourses and an exhibition space, CTM.12 – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly and dark in experimental music, avant-pop, and art. The thirteenth edition of the Festival will be held from 30 January [...]
D/B Recommended: Plastic People Special with Floating Points & Abdul Forsyth @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Saturday, 21.01.2012
147 Curtain Road – Shoreditch, London. A legendary address, home of one of the most fascinating underground music clubs worldwide, Plastic People – a place truly defined by the love of music. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]With its 200 people capacity and its incredible custom built sound-system, Plastic People has been the shelter [...]
D/B Presents: Network Awesome Birthday Party w/ Chuckamuck @ Sophiensaele Berlin | Friday, 20.01.2012
Ever want to watch Alice Cooper host The Muppet Show or catch up on old episodes of HBO series Tales From the Crypt, but didn’t know where to find them? Maybe you just want to zone out for a few hours watching nostalgic old black-and-white TV shows like The Twilight Zone or documentaries on big-wave [...]
D/B Recommended: Purge II w/ Ancient Methods & Sun Worship @ Chez Jacki Berlin | Friday, 09.12.2011
After the success with HTRK and Bruises, PURGE returns in December with more audio agGression and death defying bass featuring Ancient Methods, SUn Worship, Hanno Hinkelbein and the PURGE Allstars. There’s a primal punch to the industrial techno sounds of Ancient Methods. Their records sounds like gigantic machines, made of flesh and wood and metal, [...]
D/B Recommended: Faux Images IV @ LEAP Berlin | Tuesday, 13.12.2011
“Faux Images” is a regular meeting, which provides a platform for showing and exchanging work and networking for the Berlin animation and motion design scene. Besides the opportunity for artists to present themselves and their work, central to “Faux Images” is the idea of community and mutual inspiration.
D/B Recommended: Leisure System 14 w/ Dj Funk, Nathan Fake, Actress & Ikonika @ Berghain Berlin | Friday, 02.12.2011
Dj Funk, critically acclaimed as being one of the most influential men in house music, now the biggest getto house icon of all time is set to make his debut performance at the Berghain. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The pioneer of 90s house has been pushing out releases for over 15 years on [...]
D/B Recommended: Splitter Orchester @ WABE Berlin | Saturday, 26.11.2011
Free Improvisation, the most personal and individual of musical expression possible has always been a huge challenge for large groups. In Europe, since the outbreak of free music in the 60′s, there have been several attempts to find the definitive amalgam, that which can make personal freedom and composition i.e. using limitations – work together.
D/B Recommended: Pure X & Sleep∞Over @ Berghain Kantine Berlin | Tuesday, 15.11.2011
Narcotic-hypnotic music for somnambulists: with Pure X and Sleep ∞ Over, the concert series »Kometenmelodien« showcases two of the most interesting representatives of contemporary and timeless american pop music. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Both rank first in terms of ambiguity in musical expression such as the use of echo, reverb, distortion and opaque [...]
D/B Presents: Ryan Francesconi @ Monarch Berlin | Saturday, 19.11.2011
In 2011, Portland’s Ryan Francesconi (until recently best known for his work as the musical director on Joanna Newsom’s stunning triple album “Have One On Me”) has established himself as a leading figure in acoustic composition and performance. Now he prepares to comes back to Europe to prove it again. [Audio clip: view full post [...]
D/B Recommended: Feedbackorchester & Kulku @ Theaterkapelle Berlin | Sunday, 20.11.2011
The feedback orchestra is an exprimental guitar orchestra from Berlin, and is a collective of eight electronic guitar players who exclusively use feedback noises to play their instruments. The concerts are long improvisations based upon the athmosphere, mood, and acoustics of the particular location. What the band has in mind is a cathartic, cleansing effect [...]
D/B Recommended: Nadja & [sic] @ Marie Antoinette Berlin | Wednesday, 23.11.2011
Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff alternately based in Toronto, Canada & Berlin, Germany. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The duo makes music that encompasses experimental/drone, ambient, shoegazer, & doom metal. They have since released numerous albums with such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Conspiracy Records, Hydrahead Records, and Robotic Empire.
D/B Presents: ≠ (not equal) w/ Demdike Stare, Andy Stott, Emptyset and others @ Berghain Berlin | Friday, 11.11.2011
≠ (not equal) is a new series of events at Berghain, which aims to situate the relationship between sound research, performance and narration in contemporary electronic music. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The focus is on both sonic experiments and on an ongoing exploration into the deep time of techno, so that with ≠ [...]
D/B Recommends: Schneider TM & Jochen Arbeit @ West Germany Berlin | Sunday, 06.11.2011
Since the late 80’s Dirk Dresselhaus is active in different musical fields. From 1989 until 1997 he played and sang in indie-noiserock and -pop bands like Locust Fudge or Hip Young Things. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Before he became more active in electronic music around 1997 with his project Schneider TM (City Slang, [...]
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